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  • 2021 Annual Meeting Program

    Anthropology of Japan in Japan “Crisis Anthropology” Annual Meeting Timetable 3–5 December 2021 Hosted by Akita International University Location: ZOOM Organizing Committee: Kaeko Chiba and Hisako Omori (Akita International University) Ben Grafström (Akita University)…

  • Call for Papers: Online Annual Meeting 4-5 December 2021

    Dear Friends This is a Call for Papers for the annual meeting of the AJJ which will hosted by Akita International University Japan. The Annual Meeting of the AJJ has…

  • AJJ 2020 Keynote is now on YouTube

    We are grateful to Temple University, Japan Campus for posting the Keynote Speech of our Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) 2020 Annual Meeting (December 5-6th. 2020). The speaker is…

  • ASIAN ETHNOLOGY PODCAST

    INTERVIEW WITH SUSANNE KLIEN: URBAN MIGRANTS IN RURAL JAPAN The last post on our previous website was about this book launch event held on 22 February. Thanks to Ben Dorman,…

  • 2020 AJJ Program & Abstracts

      ★2020 Annual Meeting★ [online] Hosted by Temple University, Japan Campus Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan Campus December 5th (Sat) & 6th (Sun), 2020 Program Saturday December…

  • ANTHROPOLOGY OF JAPAN, IN JAPAN (2019) CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

    ANTHROPOLOGY OF JAPAN, IN JAPAN (AJJ) FALL 2019 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME MEIJI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY, YOKOHAMA CAMPUS Saturday, November 30, 2019 11:00am – 1:00pm Panel A: Maladies and Healing Chair: Andrea De…

  • 2018 Spring AJJ CFP

    Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) 2018 Spring Meeting Inside and Outside Communities in Japan: Re-assessing Changing Places and Shifting Boundaries April 28-29, 2018 Meiji University, Surugadai Campus, Tokyo The…

  • 2018 AJJ CFP

    THEME DISPLACEMENTS AND POTENTIALS WHEN 8 & 9 DECEMBER, 2018 LOCATION NANZAN UNIVERSITY, NAGOYA Contemporary Japan faces continuing social and cultural instability and upheaval. New patterns of displacement are emerging…

  • 2018 AJJ Abstracts

    venue: Nanzan University Saturday 8 December Panels and individual paper sessions will be held at Nanzan University, Q Building PANEL 1: DISABILITY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE SOCIETY: COMMUNITY BUILDING AND BELONGING…

  • Abstracts 2017 Fall Meeting

    AJJ FALL MEETING 2017 CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS SATURDAY December 9th KEYNOTE LECTURE 1 (9:15-10:30 RY105) Classification as an Approach to Becoming: A Structural Way of Thinking about Socialisation Dr. Joy Hendry,…